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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Apr 1, 2021, 3:20 PM EDT for Medina County, Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2021, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2021, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Medina County, OH, Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
913
WWUS81 KCLE 011920
SPSCLE
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
320 PM EDT Thu Apr 1 2021
OHZ020>022-012015-
Summit OH-Portage OH-Medina OH-
320 PM EDT Thu Apr 1 2021
...An intense lake effect snow band will affect Portage...Medina and
Summit Counties Until 415 PM EDT....
At 318 PM EDT, radar indicated an intense lake effect snow band along
a line extending from near Streetsboro to near North Royalton to near
Grafton, moving southeast at 30 mph.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
Winds to 30 mph...
Visibility rapidly dropping to less than a quarter of a mile...
Quick accumulations of up to 1 inch may accompany this band...
Locations impacted include...
Akron, Medina, Ravenna, Cuyahoga Falls, Brunswick, Kent, Barberton,
Green, Solon, Hudson, Wadsworth, Twinsburg, Tallmadge, Streetsboro,
Macedonia, Rittman, Mogadore, Lodi, Garrettsville and Creston.
Use extra caution if you must travel into or through this lake effect
snow band. Rapid changes in visibility and potentially slick roads
are likely to lead to accidents.
LAT...LON 4099 8200 4116 8208 4119 8207 4120 8197
4127 8197 4128 8157 4135 8159 4135 8103
4099 8101 4098 8144
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 332DEG 26KT 4131 8134 4126 8167 4126 8208
&&
ODOT DMS 301, 305, 316, 325, 327, 601, 602, 603, 606, 607, 612, 613,
614, 615, 616, 617, 604, and 605.
$$
ClarkThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 4:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashland, Huron, Lorain, Medina, Summit, Wayne | 64 min |
| Apr 1, 9:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Cuyahoga, Summit | 57 min |
| Apr 1, 10:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Cuyahoga, Summit | 90 min |
| Apr 1, 10:39 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | CLE | Cuyahoga, Summit | 8 hr |
| Apr 1, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain | 61 min |
| Apr 1, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Geauga, Mahoning, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull and 1 more | 86 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.